This is for bookelfe/skygiants. Of course. (Yes, I'm out of order ( Read more... )

As described in oyceter's LJ, last night we had a conversation about Dune(Prompted by a doujinshi with flying sandworms, which we were relieved to see because we had previously interpreted the Japanese phonetic rendering "wo-u-mu" as "womb," as in "Beware of the wombs-- they come out at night." In a lot of manga it would indeed make perfect sense to ( Read more... )

See post below for context, ie, if you guys don't entertain me, I can't guarantee I won't flee into the cold night in my jammies.

Last week lady_ganesh asked me to name and briefly describe the five worst books I'd ever read. I replied:

Oh God, SO MANY! How to choose?!

1. Robin Hobb's Forest Mage (The Soldier Son Trilogy, Book 2)
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